Horrible news about DF 2.0

DarthRaiden · March 2012

Originally posted by Biskop
I sort of agree with OP.

The problem with DF isn't that people lack the ability to trade globally and risk free, or that it takes too long to gear up and get back to a fight. The opposite, in fact; local banking and markets, stratetic logistics, etc, are crucial if a game is to be truly open ended and player driven.

DF's main issues as far as I'm concerned is 1) no skillcap and 2) lack of any real sandbox tools.

If the game had offered diverse options in character builds (i.e. if AV had designed the game with char specialization and interesting group dynamics in mind) and ways for players to run and operate empires, trade hubs, industries, and so on, DF would have been a huge success.

I don't see how them catering to the casual masses will bring back the hordes of disgruntled sandbox players who originally flocked to DF. All those people want is a working, well-designed game with multiple playstyle options and a high degree of player freedom.

The casual, "carebear" type player on the other hand do not want a FFA game, no matter how many "safe newbie areas", global markets or limbo states it features. Besides, they've got 99% of the market catering to them already.

Basically yes, there are much points i agree here. Especially this

"The problem with DF isn't that people lack the ability to trade globally and risk free, or that it takes too long to gear up and get back to a fight. The opposite, in fact; local banking and markets, stratetic logistics, etc, are crucial if a game is to be truly open ended and player driven. "

/yes, yes, double signed, absolutely agree here

Don't agree with the skill cap part. Specializations (even those DF has in mind now) can be fully sufficient for DF and are IMO superior to any real skill cap.

Their initial thought of giving everyone the freedom to be everything but making it a huge task has turned out to be to much naive thinking giving the min-maxers and insta gratification generation players of today.

Also i dont think there isnt any sandbox tools in Darkfall, the foundation is absolutely there, but they are limited. Whats holds more weight is that with these moves THEY DON'T EXPAND ON THEM...thats the important part.

Its not like EvE which hss become better and richer and deeper over time, DF seems becomes blunt and shallow.

I absolutely agree with the verdict here:

I don't see how them catering to the casual masses will bring back the hordes of disgruntled sandbox players who originally flocked to DF. All those people want is a working, well-designed game with multiple playstyle options and a high degree of player freedom.

/absolutely

I doubt Darkfall will attract FPS players (console kiddies), because they simply not into MMORPG's, as their real playerbase, they have many good alternatives with alot of action based FPS combat elsewhere.

Darkfalls future would have been the sandbox players who having a rich sandbox gameplay experience and welcome (or stomach) the fresh change of FPP and FFA.

I dont agree with casual = carebear. The casual player can also accept FFA and full loot IMO if there are game mechanics in place that guarantee that he won't be in big disadvantage with those who can stay 24/7 online. Offline skill meditation was a good step, which needs some polishing still but can solve the issue IMO.

PsyMike3d · March 2012

i also dont trust DF2.0... thanks god Archeage is on the horizon!!!

Snoepie · March 2012

well 2.0 will tel us if darkfall still excists..

Its either live or die with this game..

Ive been around for a very long time.. and the company that made this game with so little resources.. did a very good job..

However..

AV don't know shit about running a company.

Av do not listen to there playerbase ( which is a minor group but highly dedicated to darkfall)

What AV is blogging.. you can't not tell if this info is true or false.. so basicly disregard what there blogging.

What i would like to see:

Av goes bankrupt.. ( i truely hope this) ,

- sells the company to internetQ

- or goes open source.

As i don't know what this internetQ does or who they are i hope that darkfall will go open source..

There is an endless list of broken promises with this company..

Don't get more wrong tho.. darkfall is really great.. and have so much potential.. but the company seems either not intrested or just don't care about there baby..

Simple excample of Av's view of things..

They are working on visuals all the time..the playerbase of darkfall told so many times they none gives a **** about the visuals

FYI: it took them 2 years to adjust village caputuring points.., which was the most genuis patch ever..

Sid_Vicious · March 2012

I am actually excited for the possibility of a wipe and not bothering with crafting when 2.0 comes out. There are too many things needed in each gear bag to not be a crafter in this current game. There is no way that I would want to tolerate buying all the shit from others that I would need to buy if I wasn't a crafter. Right now I can make myself whatever and just need the mats to be satisfied but even that is fucking hard to obtain when I don't want to spend the day watching some people BS over trade chat. To be a player now without any crafting what-so-ever is hard to imagine. Thats a lot of time of bartering that everyone who doesnt craft is forced to have to put up with. To be honest I would be playing the game more often now if there was a casual-player friendly market to get mats from. I am a crafter and have a hard time obtaining selentine as often as I need it among a dozen other things. I am having to farm lowbie mobs on an end game toon at times for some enchanting mats. Sure I could go to some player vendor at a village but would really rather have an easier way to obtain something in less than an hour.

DarthRaiden · March 2012

There was some discussion about a new blog entry on Koster's blog that sparked discussion on Auction Houses vs local markets over at official forum.

http://www.raphkoster.com/2012/03/20/do-auction-houses-suck/#more-4080

It is a relief to read the words of one of the masters who invented the MMORPG genre and to see the downhill that has come by crap design ideas from "fast food" games into this genre.

Bottom line, AV and Darfall just do it WRONG. They have a lot to learn till they are able to make a enjoybale game.

Here a copy :

"Once upon a time, there was a game set in a science fiction universe where the economy was very important. Its name was not Eve.

In this game, players could, if they so chose, run a business. They could

designate a building as a shop
hire an NPC bot to stand in it
give the bot items to hold for sale
specify the prices at which those items would sell
customize the bot in a variety of ways
make use of advertising facilities to market the shop
decorate the shop any way they pleased

With this basic facility, emergent gameplay tied to the way that the crafting system worked resulted in players who chose to run shops being able to do things Ike build supply chains, manage regular inventory, develop regular customer bases, build marketing campaigns, and in general, play a lemonade stand writ large.

The upshot was that at peak, fully half the players in Star Wars Galaxies ran a shop.

Now, most of these players engaged in the system in a shallow way. Advanced versions of the capabilities cited above were unlocked based on RPG-style advancement. You had to choose to do a lot of merchant activity in order to get Merchant XP, in order to unlock more advanced advertising capabilities etc. But even a dabbler could run a small business.

Advanced players actually made the economy their entire game, working either solo or in highly organized guilds, managing oilfields worth of harvesters, factory towns worth of crafting stations, and whole malls.

The economy in something like World of Warcraft is very different in character. The peak populations on a shard in each game were comparable, though of course WoW achieved far far higher subscriber numbers in aggregate. But the peak of economic play in WoW is essentially basic arbitrage, timing the market.

There are several factors that make the functioning of the two economies radically different, of course.

in WoW all the best stuff is spawned as a result on combat. In SWG it was crafted by players.
in WoW nothing breaks; instead you outlevel it. In original SWG everything decayed.
in WoW a lot of the most valuable items aren’t actually items — they are buffs or skills in fancy dress. They aren’t transferable to other players. In SWG there was no “soul binding” and anything could be traded or gifted.

Fundamentally, though, the biggest difference has to do with the basic approach taken. You see, in Star Wars Galaxies we designed the economy to be a game, not a side effect. In particular, the merchant class was created to fulfill the fantasy of running your own business. It had features like decorating your shop because that is part of the fantasy of being a shopkeeper in a world such as that — to build up the equivalent of Watto’s junkyard, or a Trade Federation.

And this meant that above all, one feature could not exist: the auction house.

If you think of running a business as a game, then think about what you need in order to make it fun. Game grammar tells us that you are probably playing this as an asynchronous parallel game, meaning that you are measuring yourself against other players’ progress against the same opponent you fight. What’s the opponent? The vagaries of supply and demand as expressed by market price. The actions of other players have an indirect effect on this system.

Remember, a game provides statistically varied opposition within a common framework — if there is no variation, we call it a puzzle, not a game. Because of this, we invested a lot of effort into creating ever-varying economic situations in SWG.

Every resource in SWG was randomly generated off of master types. We defined “iron,” and gave it statistical ranges. Different kinds of iron would spawn with

different names, but they would all work as iron in any recipe that called for such. This meant that you might find a high-quality vein of iron, or a low quality one.
Even more, it might be high quality only for specific purposes.
Resource types were finite. You could literally mine out all the high quality iron there was. It would just be gone. A new iron might be spawned eventually (sometimes, very eventually!) but of course, it would be rolled up with different characteristics.
And in a different place. Resources were placed using freshly generated Perlin noise maps.
Crafters gambled with their resources, generating items of varying quality that were partially dependent on the resources and the recipe.
Crafters could lock in specific results as blueprints, but that forced a dependency on the specific finite resource that was used, meaning that blueprints naturally obsolesced.

All of this meant that a merchant could never rely having the best item, or the most desirable item (indeed, “most desirable” could exist on several axes, meaning that there were varying customer preferences in terms of what they liked in a blaster). Word spread through informal means as to the locations of rare ore deposits. People fought PvP battles over them. People hoarded minerals just

to sell them on the market once they had become rare. And of course, they organized sites like the now defunct SWGCraft.com, which monitored all of this fluctuating data and fed it back out in tidy feeds for other sites and even apps to consume, such as this one, which was widely used by hardcore business players much like a Bloomberg terminal is by someone who plays the market.

Then it all went away. You see, a key feature of the system was that the central NPC run shops were not permitted to interfere with this. Nor was the spawn system allowed to drop high quality items as loot. The result was that if you wanted the coolest weapon, you had to hunt through player-run shops like a mad antiquer on a summer drive. The result of the above systems, you see, was an economy where it was very very hard to see the gestalt of the trade economy. You really had to hunt to find out if you had found a bargain.

For someone who just wanted to frickin’ buy a blaster, it was very inconvenient.

In other words, we had local pricing in full effect. This meant that the individual merchant, who, remember, was there to fulfill the fantasy of running a small business, could get away with not being being great at it.

In the real world, we are rapidly approaching a perfect information economy. I can instantly look up the varying prices of something I want, determine the one with the lowest actual cost to me (price, shipping, time to arrival, physical location, quality, etc), and get exactly what I want. It is a world optimized for the buyer.

The experience for the seller, though, is not generally awesome, unless they happen to have the scale that drives victory in a winner takes all scenario. The big guys can essentially dictate prices by undercutting everyone. They dominate the visible market, and can drown out the smaller or more unique offerings. In this sort of world, the funky used bookstore with the awesome decor tends to die, and it doesn’t matter how much fun the shop owner had in coming up with said decor.

SWG eventually did put in a serverwide auction house, responding to WoW. It made life easier for the buyers. But it created a perfect information economy, and all that complexity and variation that was present in the market earlier fell away. Small shopkeepers were shut out of markets.

If that happens to you in a game, you don’t find another line of work. You quit.

So do auction houses suck? No, not if your game is about getting. It is a better experience for a gamer interesting in getting.

But the fantasy of running a shop, or being a business tycoon, is not just about the getting. It is about the having — of relationships, of an empire, of a well-oiled machine. It is about running things, not about working your way up a chain of gewgaws. The gewgaws are a way to keep score, but you play the game for the sake of the game.

SWG was not a game about getting. After all, everything you could get in the game eventually broke. It was about the having. Having your shops, your town, your supply chain, your loyal customers, your collectible Krayt dragon skull or poster or miniature plush Bantha like in the Christmas Special.

When the merchant changes went in to SWG, the merchants went out.

Getting is kind of addictive. For a mass market audience, it may well be the path to greater acceptance and higher profits. Me, I like funky bookstores; but I have to admit I usually buy from Amazon. It’s convenient.

The lesson here is that sometimes features that make things better for one player make them dramatically worse for another. Every time you make a design choice you are closing as many doors as you open. In particular, you should always say to yourself,

I’m adding this feature for player convenience. How many people live for the play that this inconvenience affords?

The small shopkeepers; the socializers who need the extra five minutes you have to spend waiting for a boat at the Everquest docks; the players who live to help, and can’t once every item is soul bound and every fight is group locked and they can’t even step in to save your life; the role player who cannot be who they wish to be because their dialogue is prewritten; the person proud of his knowledge of the dangerous mountains who is bypassed by a teleporter; the person who wants to be lost in the woods and cannot because there is a mini-map.

Every inconvenience is a challenge, and games are made of challenges. This means that every inconvenience in your design is potentially someone’s game."

darkehawke · March 2012

Originally posted by DarthRaiden
There was some discussion about a new blog entry on Koster's blog that sparked discussion on Auction Houses vs local markets over at official forum.

http://www.raphkoster.com/2012/03/20/do-auction-houses-suck/#more-4080

It is a relief to read the words of one of the masters who invented the MMORPG genre and to see the downhill that has come by crap design ideas from "fast food" games into this genre.

Bottom line, AV and Darfall just do it WRONG. They have a lot to learn till they are able to make a enjoybale game.

Here a copy :

"Once upon a time, there was a game set in a science fiction universe where the economy was very important. Its name was not Eve.

In this game, players could, if they so chose, run a business. They could

designate a building as a shop

hire an NPC bot to stand in it

give the bot items to hold for sale

specify the prices at which those items would sell

customize the bot in a variety of ways

make use of advertising facilities to market the shop

decorate the shop any way they pleased

With this basic facility, emergent gameplay tied to the way that the crafting system worked resulted in players who chose to run shops being able to do things Ike build supply chains, manage regular inventory, develop regular customer bases, build marketing campaigns, and in general, play a lemonade stand writ large.

The upshot was that at peak, fully half the players in Star Wars Galaxies ran a shop.

Now, most of these players engaged in the system in a shallow way. Advanced versions of the capabilities cited above were unlocked based on RPG-style advancement. You had to choose to do a lot of merchant activity in order to get Merchant XP, in order to unlock more advanced advertising capabilities etc. But even a dabbler could run a small business.

Advanced players actually made the economy their entire game, working either solo or in highly organized guilds, managing oilfields worth of harvesters, factory towns worth of crafting stations, and whole malls.

The economy in something like World of Warcraft is very different in character. The peak populations on a shard in each game were comparable, though of course WoW achieved far far higher subscriber numbers in aggregate. But the peak of economic play in WoW is essentially basic arbitrage, timing the market.

There are several factors that make the functioning of the two economies radically different, of course.

in WoW all the best stuff is spawned as a result on combat. In SWG it was crafted by players.

in WoW nothing breaks; instead you outlevel it. In original SWG everything decayed.

in WoW a lot of the most valuable items aren’t actually items — they are buffs or skills in fancy dress. They aren’t transferable to other players. In SWG there was no “soul binding” and anything could be traded or gifted.

Fundamentally, though, the biggest difference has to do with the basic approach taken. You see, in Star Wars Galaxies we designed the economy to be a game, not a side effect. In particular, the merchant class was created to fulfill the fantasy of running your own business. It had features like decorating your shop because that is part of the fantasy of being a shopkeeper in a world such as that — to build up the equivalent of Watto’s junkyard, or a Trade Federation.

And this meant that above all, one feature could not exist: the auction house.

If you think of running a business as a game, then think about what you need in order to make it fun. Game grammar tells us that you are probably playing this as an asynchronous parallel game, meaning that you are measuring yourself against other players’ progress against the same opponent you fight. What’s the opponent? The vagaries of supply and demand as expressed by market price. The actions of other players have an indirect effect on this system.

Remember, a game provides statistically varied opposition within a common framework — if there is no variation, we call it a puzzle, not a game. Because of this, we invested a lot of effort into creating ever-varying economic situations in SWG.

Every resource in SWG was randomly generated off of master types. We defined “iron,” and gave it statistical ranges. Different kinds of iron would spawn with

different names, but they would all work as iron in any recipe that called for such. This meant that you might find a high-quality vein of iron, or a low quality one.

Even more, it might be high quality only for specific purposes.

Resource types were finite. You could literally mine out all the high quality iron there was. It would just be gone. A new iron might be spawned eventually (sometimes, very eventually!) but of course, it would be rolled up with different characteristics.

And in a different place. Resources were placed using freshly generated Perlin noise maps.

Crafters gambled with their resources, generating items of varying quality that were partially dependent on the resources and the recipe.

Crafters could lock in specific results as blueprints, but that forced a dependency on the specific finite resource that was used, meaning that blueprints naturally obsolesced.

All of this meant that a merchant could never rely having the best item, or the most desirable item (indeed, “most desirable” could exist on several axes, meaning that there were varying customer preferences in terms of what they liked in a blaster). Word spread through informal means as to the locations of rare ore deposits. People fought PvP battles over them. People hoarded minerals just

to sell them on the market once they had become rare. And of course, they organized sites like the now defunct SWGCraft.com, which monitored all of this fluctuating data and fed it back out in tidy feeds for other sites and even apps to consume, such as this one, which was widely used by hardcore business players much like a Bloomberg terminal is by someone who plays the market.

Then it all went away. You see, a key feature of the system was that the central NPC run shops were not permitted to interfere with this. Nor was the spawn system allowed to drop high quality items as loot. The result was that if you wanted the coolest weapon, you had to hunt through player-run shops like a mad antiquer on a summer drive. The result of the above systems, you see, was an economy where it was very very hard to see the gestalt of the trade economy. You really had to hunt to find out if you had found a bargain.

For someone who just wanted to frickin’ buy a blaster, it was very inconvenient.

In other words, we had local pricing in full effect. This meant that the individual merchant, who, remember, was there to fulfill the fantasy of running a small business, could get away with not being being great at it.

In the real world, we are rapidly approaching a perfect information economy. I can instantly look up the varying prices of something I want, determine the one with the lowest actual cost to me (price, shipping, time to arrival, physical location, quality, etc), and get exactly what I want. It is a world optimized for the buyer.

The experience for the seller, though, is not generally awesome, unless they happen to have the scale that drives victory in a winner takes all scenario. The big guys can essentially dictate prices by undercutting everyone. They dominate the visible market, and can drown out the smaller or more unique offerings. In this sort of world, the funky used bookstore with the awesome decor tends to die, and it doesn’t matter how much fun the shop owner had in coming up with said decor.

SWG eventually did put in a serverwide auction house, responding to WoW. It made life easier for the buyers. But it created a perfect information economy, and all that complexity and variation that was present in the market earlier fell away. Small shopkeepers were shut out of markets.

If that happens to you in a game, you don’t find another line of work. You quit.

So do auction houses suck? No, not if your game is about getting. It is a better experience for a gamer interesting in getting.

But the fantasy of running a shop, or being a business tycoon, is not just about the getting. It is about the having — of relationships, of an empire, of a well-oiled machine. It is about running things, not about working your way up a chain of gewgaws. The gewgaws are a way to keep score, but you play the game for the sake of the game.

SWG was not a game about getting. After all, everything you could get in the game eventually broke. It was about the having. Having your shops, your town, your supply chain, your loyal customers, your collectible Krayt dragon skull or poster or miniature plush Bantha like in the Christmas Special.

When the merchant changes went in to SWG, the merchants went out.

Getting is kind of addictive. For a mass market audience, it may well be the path to greater acceptance and higher profits. Me, I like funky bookstores; but I have to admit I usually buy from Amazon. It’s convenient.

The lesson here is that sometimes features that make things better for one player make them dramatically worse for another. Every time you make a design choice you are closing as many doors as you open. In particular, you should always say to yourself,

I’m adding this feature for player convenience. How many people live for the play that this inconvenience affords?

The small shopkeepers; the socializers who need the extra five minutes you have to spend waiting for a boat at the Everquest docks; the players who live to help, and can’t once every item is soul bound and every fight is group locked and they can’t even step in to save your life; the role player who cannot be who they wish to be because their dialogue is prewritten; the person proud of his knowledge of the dangerous mountains who is bypassed by a teleporter; the person who wants to be lost in the woods and cannot because there is a mini-map.

Every inconvenience is a challenge, and games are made of challenges. This means that every inconvenience in your design is potentially someone’s game."

SWG still had that awesome crafting side of things way after the nge still. The global bazaar terminals were pretty much just used to trace individual merchant shops for a long while as the auction market itself was useless. If you wanted to sell items you needed vendors. This remained true until a few months before shut down when they removed the list price limit.

Of course nothing will compare to the economy pre nge, SWG was a fantastic game for it. The shift towards loot ruined it, but it still remained a far deeper experience then any other mmo I've played. The nge got a lot better as it went on, but the damage was done to the craters and they slowly got more and more shafted as the loot whores got involved. It's a crying shame what happened to SWG, but nge was still a richer experience then wow and other crap. I personally don't blame soe for the nge anymore after hearing how lucasarts works. LA has the final say in any star wars products and the nge was, in my mind, their idea. Considering they forced an author to completely change the ending to his book wasting all the work he'd done on previous books building it up, we'll it just sounds a little too familiar.

About the darkfall changes, getting back into combat quickly is not a good thing. Skill andtactics mean nothing and numbers mean everything. It's not a good thing. You don't need to babysit the players, let them play for themselves and they will create their own world and it'll be a richer experience for it

adderVXI · March 2012

I dont think anyone needs to worry about what DF 2.0 will be like, by then i plan on playing GW3, ArcheAge2 and EQ3.

Thorkune · March 2012

Originally posted by adderVXI
I dont think anyone needs to worry about what DF 2.0 will be like, by then i plan on playing GW3, ArcheAge2 and EQ3.

ElderRat · March 2012

Originally posted by neorandom

Originally posted by Atheenah

LOL, the game gotta be be really crappy to begin with if those two changes made you quit!

hes a ganker, if you can dress in armor on corpse runs he cant camp and snipe you naked.

and if you can buy stuff in the safety of the town youre in from other towns, he cant camp you in that one town if it didnt have armor for sale to naked gank you as you left to go to another to regear.

basically the 2 changes negatively effect campers that wanna kill naked people repeatedly.

Yes, I agree that is most likely the reason the op is shedding tears. If he shed tears like that on an EVE forum he would be mocked.

drakes821 · March 2012

Originally posted by ElderRat

Yes, I agree that is most likely the reason the op is shedding tears. If he shed tears like that on an EVE forum he would be mocked.

Wow your EVE forums must be SO cool

But honestly from the excerpt the OP posted that limbo death system sounds like complete BS. So if my guild wipes another guild, they can just reappear fully geared randomly close to me as long as that things not on cooldown and they have the money? So large fights will be decided by whoever has some stupid ability available and the money to pay for?

I don't think it makes the game like WoW in any way, its just a dumb system no competitive PvP game should have.

The new market system makes perfect sense to me though and is a needed feature.

thinktank001 · March 2012

Originally posted by darkehawke
Of course nothing will compare to the economy pre nge, SWG was a fantastic game for it. The shift towards loot ruined it, but it still remained a far deeper experience then any other mmo I've played. The nge got a lot better as it went on, but the damage was done to the craters and they slowly got more and more shafted as the loot whores got involved. It's a crying shame what happened to SWG, but nge was still a richer experience then wow and other crap. I personally don't blame soe for the nge anymore after hearing how lucasarts works. LA has the final say in any star wars products and the nge was, in my mind, their idea. Considering they forced an author to completely change the ending to his book wasting all the work he'd done on previous books building it up, we'll it just sounds a little too familiar.

It was an SOE mistake. I am not sure if it is still around, but you can google about the focus groups that they used for feedback on the NGE patch while it was in development.

RefMinor · March 2012

Originally posted by ElderRat

Originally posted by neorandom

Originally posted by Atheenah

LOL, the game gotta be be really crappy to begin with if those two changes made you quit!

hes a ganker, if you can dress in armor on corpse runs he cant camp and snipe you naked.

and if you can buy stuff in the safety of the town youre in from other towns, he cant camp you in that one town if it didnt have armor for sale to naked gank you as you left to go to another to regear.

basically the 2 changes negatively effect campers that wanna kill naked people repeatedly.

Yes, I agree that is most likely the reason the op is shedding tears. If he shed tears like that on an EVE forum he would be mocked.

You were playing Eve last year when CCP introduced the cash shop, a lot of tears around last summer on the Eve forums.

DarthRaiden · March 2012

Originally posted by ElderRat

Originally posted by neorandom

Originally posted by Atheenah

LOL, the game gotta be be really crappy to begin with if those two changes made you quit!

hes a ganker, if you can dress in armor on corpse runs he cant camp and snipe you naked.

and if you can buy stuff in the safety of the town youre in from other towns, he cant camp you in that one town if it didnt have armor for sale to naked gank you as you left to go to another to regear.

basically the 2 changes negatively effect campers that wanna kill naked people repeatedly.

Yes, I agree that is most likely the reason the op is shedding tears. If he shed tears like that on an EVE forum he would be mocked.

So nothing Koster had to say about economy design touched you obviously, it all must have to do with ganking.

PsyMike3d · April 2012

i hope a proper company will adopt the DF idea and concept and make a good game.....i stopped hoping for AV

Chrome1980 · April 2012

Originally posted by DarthRaiden
As a veteran gamer i am very worried about what AV is developing there. The more the reveal, the more shit it sounds. You all know i was a very avid supporter but i cant support the insta travel back after death = limbo and the global Auction House. Its the wrong direction i wanted to see this game heading to.

I m afraid DF flushes down the toilet.

"Once ganked, a character enters a limbo state where he is able to re-equip his character with items from his bank box, and reenter the battle at a random spot relatively close to his tomb stone." update 10 feb

"Browsing any marketplace will reveal all buy and sell orders currently available all over Agon. If an item is located at the market you are at, you can buy it right there and then. If the item is located in another marketplace you have two options: You can either travel to the market and buy it there, or you can pay a courier cost related to the item’s price, and have it delivered to your location" update Feb 23

This will kill Darkfall for me. I ll supported it for become more rich gaming experience and not for it to become WoW.

Yeah because DF was such a run away success why would they want to kill DF 2.0 with these changes.

DarthRaiden · April 2012

Originally posted by Chrome1980

Originally posted by DarthRaiden
As a veteran gamer i am very worried about what AV is developing there. The more the reveal, the more shit it sounds. You all know i was a very avid supporter but i cant support the insta travel back after death = limbo and the global Auction House. Its the wrong direction i wanted to see this game heading to.

I m afraid DF flushes down the toilet.

"Once ganked, a character enters a limbo state where he is able to re-equip his character with items from his bank box, and reenter the battle at a random spot relatively close to his tomb stone." update 10 feb

"Browsing any marketplace will reveal all buy and sell orders currently available all over Agon. If an item is located at the market you are at, you can buy it right there and then. If the item is located in another marketplace you have two options: You can either travel to the market and buy it there, or you can pay a courier cost related to the item’s price, and have it delivered to your location" update Feb 23

This will kill Darkfall for me. I ll supported it for become more rich gaming experience and not for it to become WoW.

Yeah because DF was such a run away success why would they want to kill DF 2.0 with these changes.

You could ask almost everyone telling you it had a promising ground to base upon. Some exptected it would have take the route of EvE with a rocky start and with continously development to flesh out what was missing.

It has a big world, cities, mobs to hunt, player cities, housing, seas and seawarfare, crafting, melle, combat, range combat, magic and mounted combat and freedom to explore the world how and when you like.

Just listing DF's feature let you think and "what's missing" ?

For me its the lack of "stay strict to sandbox" paradigm, because many listed features don't respect entirely sandboxyness.

btw i dont care if a game's success is counted in number's of customers. See, eating burgers is the most successfully nutrition in numbers but its unhealthy and wrong. Following the habbits of mainstream don't let you progress.

OBK1 · April 2012

I miss Darkfall...oh well. Don't know enough about the limbo system to really have an opinion, but I agree with Darth about the market side of things. Local markets would be great, not some insta delivery bullshit no risk system. And this comes from someone who played DF mostly for its pve and great world design!

Comnitus · April 2012

Originally posted by RefMinor

Originally posted by ElderRat

Originally posted by neorandom

Originally posted by Atheenah
LOL, the game gotta be be really crappy to begin with if those two changes made you quit!

hes a ganker, if you can dress in armor on corpse runs he cant camp and snipe you naked.

and if you can buy stuff in the safety of the town youre in from other towns, he cant camp you in that one town if it didnt have armor for sale to naked gank you as you left to go to another to regear.

basically the 2 changes negatively effect campers that wanna kill naked people repeatedly.

Yes, I agree that is most likely the reason the op is shedding tears. If he shed tears like that on an EVE forum he would be mocked.

You were playing Eve last year when CCP introduced the cash shop, a lot of tears around last summer on the Eve forums.

Look where it got us. CCP did a complete 180 and is pumping out better content than ever - while focusing on fixing what's there (finally). Sometimes, tears make a difference. But not in this case (unless more people start crying).

Chrome1980 · April 2012

Originally posted by DarthRaiden

Originally posted by Chrome1980

Originally posted by DarthRaiden
As a veteran gamer i am very worried about what AV is developing there. The more the reveal, the more shit it sounds. You all know i was a very avid supporter but i cant support the insta travel back after death = limbo and the global Auction House. Its the wrong direction i wanted to see this game heading to.

I m afraid DF flushes down the toilet.

"Once ganked, a character enters a limbo state where he is able to re-equip his character with items from his bank box, and reenter the battle at a random spot relatively close to his tomb stone." update 10 feb

"Browsing any marketplace will reveal all buy and sell orders currently available all over Agon. If an item is located at the market you are at, you can buy it right there and then. If the item is located in another marketplace you have two options: You can either travel to the market and buy it there, or you can pay a courier cost related to the item’s price, and have it delivered to your location" update Feb 23

This will kill Darkfall for me. I ll supported it for become more rich gaming experience and not for it to become WoW.

Yeah because DF was such a run away success why would they want to kill DF 2.0 with these changes.

You could ask almost everyone telling you it had a promising ground to base upon. Some exptected it would have take the route of EvE with a rocky start and with continously development to flesh out what was missing.

It has a big world, cities, mobs to hunt, player cities, housing, seas and seawarfare, crafting, melle, combat, range combat, magic and mounted combat and freedom to explore the world how and when you like.

Just listing DF's feature let you think and "what's missing" ?

For me its the lack of "stay strict to sandbox" paradigm, because many listed features don't respect entirely sandboxyness.

btw i dont care if a game's success is counted in number's of customers. See, eating burgers is the most successfully nutrition in numbers but its unhealthy and wrong. Following the habbits of mainstream don't let you progress.

Yes you don't because it is not your money that is invested in the game. I doubt that the two changes listed in OP would make DF 2.0 more mainstream.

Sid_Vicious · May 2012

I am so excited for Darkfall 2.0!!!!!

Hell yeah it will be so fun starting fresh on an asian server!! I love being on top but am not skilled enough (or have enough free time) to remain on top once the game has been out this long. Starting out is different though because I only have to be hardcore for a month to solo groups and feel like a god and can remain that way for a few months! Awesomesauce coming this way to PVP community!!!!

I will probably still have my NA account as well but being able to solo own in this game again without having to spend a lot of time will be so fucking awesome that I do not understand any complaints that any PVPer has with the upcoming expansion.

As an MMORPG FFA PVPer how could you not be peeing on yourself over the release of this?!?

I promise you if you have any doubts than play with me and we will have tons of fun!

SEANMCAD · May 2012

I will state this here like I did a few years ago and look back on this statement when and if Darkfall 2 ever comes out.

'its likely that Darkfall 2 will swing more toward what the mainstream MMOs are doing now rather than appealing to the core players. People who have made a career of playing Darkfall while also endlessly complaining about it are going to miss the days of Darkfall 1'

here me now, believe me later.

mikethk · May 2012

wdOriginally posted by Arakazi
Explain why these two changes will have such a devestating effect on gameplay and why it turns darkfall into the MMO toy'r'us that is Warcraft?

Because DF is about capturing cities..... Take over ships..... Kill and take the gods like farms....... All this is ruined if you can just spawn beside the place you died...

But however, to few ppl are satisfied by the VERY hardcore mode right now, where you can ride your horse for 40 min then suddenly get hit by a tower a die....... If you are nab......

Something gotta change, and YES, it has to be something with the hardcore site of DF... Why? Cause ppl dont have all day all life to play....... And in DF, you can EASYLY use more nights on NOTHING.....................

Im not in for the Limbo state aswell.... But something near to it, that will tower the same idea. . . Like a summoner stone, which can be placed by 5 players.... 5 players can then sum there mates to this place....... Now theres something for the enemy to destroy, but also a easier way to get into a fight............................. As soon you make summoner stone its all fair... Cause its magic... An DF is magic... Limbo is wierd.................

jules88 · May 2012

It's such a shame that this sandbox game is being allowed to die by its developers ("AV").

The DF community is waiting for AV to announce its "promotion" which is meant to keep DF1 running until DF2 is launched. As usual, AV is completely failing to tell its gamers what is happening and when it's going to happen. In the meantime, the game continues to die a very slow and painful death. The EU1 server is dead (despite what anyone says - the server numbers cannot be argued with) and NA1 is on life support.

AV have really failed the sandbox gaming community on this one.

It's a real shame, as DF has been my most amazing MMORPG experience ever and has probably ruined any other genres for me now.

I still hold hope, though, that they pull 1k rabbits out of their hats.

tracerian · June 2012

Originally posted by DarthRaiden
As a veteran gamer i am very worried about what AV is developing there. The more the reveal, the more shit it sounds. You all know i was a very avid supporter but i cant support the insta travel back after death = limbo and the global Auction House. Its the wrong direction i wanted to see this game heading to.

I m afraid DF flushes down the toilet.

"Once ganked, a character enters a limbo state where he is able to re-equip his character with items from his bank box, and reenter the battle at a random spot relatively close to his tomb stone." update 10 feb

"Browsing any marketplace will reveal all buy and sell orders currently available all over Agon. If an item is located at the market you are at, you can buy it right there and then. If the item is located in another marketplace you have two options: You can either travel to the market and buy it there, or you can pay a courier cost related to the item’s price, and have it delivered to your location" update Feb 23

This will kill Darkfall for me. I ll supported it for become more rich gaming experience and not for it to become WoW.

Agreed. Why the hell should they be able to re-enter a fight, right after I killed them?? Battles will drag on for hours now, and players will become more like zombies-always coming back in huge hordes! And a global AH? Really? Players have always had to travel to trade and I remember always haggling with people while trading. An AH will kill face to face trading! 2.0 does sounds like it will impact the game in a bad way.

SEANMCAD · June 2012

Originally posted by DarthRaiden
As a veteran gamer i am very worried about what AV is developing there. The more the reveal, the more shit it sounds. You all know i was a very avid supporter but i cant support the insta travel back after death = limbo and the global Auction House. Its the wrong direction i wanted to see this game heading to.

I m afraid DF flushes down the toilet.

"Once ganked, a character enters a limbo state where he is able to re-equip his character with items from his bank box, and reenter the battle at a random spot relatively close to his tomb stone." update 10 feb

"Browsing any marketplace will reveal all buy and sell orders currently available all over Agon. If an item is located at the market you are at, you can buy it right there and then. If the item is located in another marketplace you have two options: You can either travel to the market and buy it there, or you can pay a courier cost related to the item’s price, and have it delivered to your location" update Feb 23

This will kill Darkfall for me. I ll supported it for become more rich gaming experience and not for it to become WoW.

LOL..I knew it!

I preached it like the gospel.

I said 'with all the massive amounts of bitching and complaining people do about Darkfall there is little reason for them to NOT make Darkfall 2 more like a mainstream game' I warned you all...

as far as they are cocerned they will gladly trash the existing player base and get a new player base which is MUCH larger. Can you blame them?

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